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Perpetually serious-looking New York-born character actor, who showed up to good effect in many TV shows of the 1950s and '60s. His quietly authoritarian demeanor lent itself ideally to portraying characters with badges or uniforms: Sheriff Heck Tate in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), General Bogan of Strategic Air Command in Fail Safe (1964) and Major Harvey Stovall of Bomber Group 918 in 12 O'Clock High (1964). The latter was his only recurring role on television and he made the most of it, being strongly featured in several of the episodes. Prior to his well-remembered role as Elias Sandoval on the Star Trek (1966) episode, This Side of Paradise (1967), he had made notable appearances on two other science fiction series.
He was twice featured on The Twilight Zone (1959). On the episode, Walking Distance (1959), he played the father of advertising executive Martin Sloan (Gig Young), who, unhappy with his life such as it is, has somehow time-traveled back to his hometown. Sloan finds, to his delight, that everything has remained unchanged from the time of his childhood. In a superbly-acted and touching scene, the elder Sloan (having come to terms with the identity of the stranger), asks his son to leave, because there can only ever be "one summer per customer". In contrast, Overton's chill, austere Sheriff Harry Wheeler on Mute (1963) was the antithesis of his character on "Walking Distance", devoid of compassion or understanding. Overton also appeared as an unsympathetic physician on The Invaders (1967) episode, Genesis (1967).
Overton's characterizations on stage largely paralleled those on screen. He made his first stab at Broadway as a lieutenant in Elia Kazan's comedy 'Jacobowsky and the Colonel', written by S.N. Behrman. The play ran for 417 performances from 1944 to 1945. He played another sheriff in 'The Trip to Bountiful' (1953) and replaced James Gregory as deputy Jesse Bard in the original stage version of 'The Desperate Hours' (1955). His most successful performance was as Morris Lacey in 'The Dark at the Top of the Stairs' (1957-59), a role he reprised for the film version of 1960.
An actor who always looked older than his years, Frank Emmons Overton died of a heart attack in April 1967, aged only 49.- Actor
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Fred C. Newmeyer was a professional baseball player from 1909-13 before beginning his career as an extra at Universal Pictures. He worked his way up the ladder to become a prop man, then assistant director and, finally, director. Notable among his films are Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925) with Douglas MacLean and The Potters (1927), starring W.C. Fields. His interest in baseball never waned and sometimes surfaced as a theme in his films, particularly with Warming Up (1928), a vehicle for Jean Arthur and Richard Dix.
Newmeyer specialized almost exclusively in comedy, first as an actor and then as a very capable director. He turned out several entries in the "Our Gang" series, as well as numerous other shorts for Hal Roach. He actually helmed the very first "Our Gang" effort, but it was deemed unsatisfactory and the piece was eventually remade by Robert F. McGowan. However, Newmeyer later worked on some of Harold Lloyd's best films, either as solo director (Grandma's Boy (1922), Dr. Jack (1922)) or in collaboration with Sam Taylor (The Freshman (1925), Safety Last! (1923)).
With the advent of sound Newmeyer, ill-advisedly, forsook daredevil comedy for more serious subjects. Subway Express (1931), a "thriller" he made for Columbia, was plain dull, and General Spanky (1936) (starring ex-"Our Gang" star George 'Spanky' McFarland) was mushy melodrama at its worst. After that, Newmeyer's directing career quietly petered out.- Actor
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Jacques B. Brunius was born on 16 September 1906 in Paris, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Sea Devils (1953), Life Is Ours (1936) and Violons d'Ingres (1939). He was married to Cecile Chevreau and Colette Hulmann. He died on 24 April 1967 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK.- Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov may have become the first man on the moon if the Soviet space program had managed to keep up with its head start on its American counterpart. It was the death of Komarov, the first human being to die in a space flight, that was a watershed event in the ultimate failure of the USSR to get to the moon.
Komarov died on April 24, 1967 when the capsule of his reentry vehicle crashed to earth when its parachute failed. Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space and his backup pilot, had objected to the flight of Soyuz 1 because design flaws had not been worked out. The crash of Soyuz 1, the first flight of a new class of Soviet spacecraft that were supposed to put a cosmonaut on the moon by 1968, showed that there were deeper problems with the Soviet moonshot program than just the design flaws of one craft. (Gagarin himself, another likely candidate to be one of the first men on the moon, died in a jet fighter crash nearly a year later due to the incompetence of Soviet ground crews and flight personnel.)
Born March 16, 1927 in Moscow, Komarov was a Soviet test pilot and aerospace engineer who was part of the first group of cosmonauts selected for space flight by the USSR in 1960. Though twice disqualified during the Soviet space program for medical problems, he remained an integral part of the program due to his tenacity, technical skills, and engineering knowledge. At the Space City cosmonaut training center, he not only helped with the training of cosmonauts but, like Gagarin, helped design space vehicles. When the Soviet Union launched its moonshot program, Komarov was put in command of one of two groups of cosmonauts who were expected to land on the moon. (Gagarin was in his team.)
Komarov was was made the pilot of Soyuz 1, and his trip made him the first cosmonaut to go into deep space for a second time. Unfortunately, he also became the first person to die during a space flight. When Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made it to the moon two years later, they left a bag containing medals honoring Komarov and Gagarin behind on the moon surface to pay their respects to two pioneers of space flight. - Zsigmond Széchenyi was born on 23 January 1898 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania]. He died on 24 April 1967 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Eric Baume was born on 29 May 1900 in Auckland, New Zealand. He died on 24 April 1967 in Kirribilli, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Robert Shumard was born on 7 September 1920 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He died on 24 April 1967 in Allen Park, Michigan, USA.
- Actor
Fireman Jim Flynn was an actor. He died on 24 April 1967 in Zephyrhills, Florida, USA.- Production Designer
- Art Director
Steini Sveinbjörnsson was born on 26 May 1925. Steini was a production designer and art director, known for Tre finder en kro (1955), Formula for Love (1959) and Taxa K 1640 efterlyses (1956). Steini died on 24 April 1967.- Konstantin Dobjinski was born on 25 December 1889 in Georgia. He was an actor, known for Uchinari Jani (1943). He died on 24 April 1967 in the USSR.
- Cecil Wright was born on 2 July 1904 in London, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for It's the Law (1956). He died on 24 April 1967 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Elizabeth Meehan was born on 22 August 1894 in Isle of Wight, England, UK. She was a writer, known for West of Singapore (1933), Storm Over Lisbon (1944) and Parachute Nurse (1942). She died on 24 April 1967 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Actress
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Ida Presti was born on 31 May 1924 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. She was an actress, known for Le petit chose (1938), Glamador (1958) and Phaedra (1962). She was married to Alexandre Lagoya and Henry Rigaud. She died on 24 April 1967 in Rochester, New York, USA.